Hey everyone! A colleague of mine is doing research for a book and is collecting information on how yokai are viewed and received outside of Japan.
It would be of immense help if you could answer the brief (only seven questions) Google Form below:
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Thanks for your help!
Picture of the week - Odesa…😢
Japan's traditional kissa coffee shops peaked in 1981 but have steadily declined since. Here's how the Shōwa-retro cafés are fighting back against chains like Starbucks and staging a comeback.
A white dog mascot wearing a white middle bowl as a hat and a brown skirt kneels on some grass in front of some trees.
Sanomaru, the mascot of Sano City, is a samurai puppy with a ramen bowl on his head and potato skewer swords.
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
Panel from History of Japan in Manga: Samurai, Shoguns and World War II Book by Kanaya Shunichiro, showing a common misspelling of "Masashige".
Misspelling of "Masashige" in Ivan Morris's Nobility of Failure.
Much like syllable masking in psychoacoustics, the strong MASA phrase must mask the following S in SHIGA, because "Masahige" is an extremely common typo of Masashige (まさしげ).
#Masashige #まさしげ #psychophysics
The trouble with the kind of adult Catholic convert JD Vance represents is that they don't view their faith as a way to make themselves better people. They view it as a way to pretend Warhammer 40k is real.
Good morning!
Yarmouth Bar, Nova Scotia just after the moon rise photographed by James Stenabaugh..
What is humanism? Humanism is a non-religious approach to life, centred on living a meaningful, ethical life based on reason and compassion. Humanists see the universe as a natural phenomenon with no supernatural side, and look to science to answer questions about the natural world. Humanists believe this life is the only life we have, so they focus living well in the here and now, guided by empathy and our shared humanity.
Throughout recorded history there have been non-religious people who have believed that this life is the only life we have, that the universe is a natural phenomenon with no supernatural side, and that we can live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.
Holy shit I forgot about this song!
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#HollyWalker #London #Synth #Synthesizers #Dank
this wikipedia editor is orbiting the moon right now!
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
‼️We just released a public dataset and repo for ultrasound perception using Monty.
Work on this could improve automatic analysis and guidance for diagnostic ultrasound, especially in low-resource settings. Open for everyone to explore.🌏
NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.
“bigger airplanes." Lol!
Comrade, I see Day Off of Student Bueller in cinema several time.
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There are people who believe that the creator of the universe took human form and instructed us how to live. They believe that the instructions they gave are faithfully recorded in a widely available book. And they ignore them completely.
Sunday Exception:
Swan Perfect Landing
When math seems simple — like calculating a tip — that’s often only because notation has made it so. “We have these notational technologies that allow us to not see this as significant math, but it is,” said math historian David Dunning.
"The bottom line is that regime change by bombing does not work."
'Karim Sadjadpour, a policy analyst at the Carnegie endowment, describes President Trump as the ‘‘Jackson Pollock of foreign policy’’ orchestrating a ‘‘regime change by jazz improvisation.’’ '... the lolsob presidency.
Philippines just declared a National Energy Emergency. We only have weeks left before we run out of gas.
There are jeepney strikes on the road and people can't go to their work offices and universities. I was also absent yesterday 😭
If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you.
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On Thought in Harness by Edna St Vincent Millay
The practices that make your life better—careful attention, care for others, comfort with difference, cultivating discernment—turn out to be the same practices that sustain a free and open society.
Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign.
Together we were able to do things never seen in American politics, to set a new standard from what we should expect from the people who try to represent us.
What we built matters, regardless of the outcome. And the work isn’t over.
Mark Ruffalo has a message for you:
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In an episode of House of the Dragon, one of Rhaenyra's generals advises "what's the point of having dragons if we're not using them!". Homie, the point is to not have to use them. I'm sure this Palantir fool is an Everything I Needed to Know About CEO I Learned from HBO graduate.
